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Document date

Nisan 5567 Anno Mundi (9 April, 1807 – 8 May, 1807 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Letter in Hebrew dated April/May 1807 CE (Nisan 567 = ונשמחה בכל ימנו), from the Jewish community of Safed to the Jewish community of Pisa, specifically the head judge Yiṣḥaq Gallico (יצחק גאליקו), begging for financial aid.

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• gallico
• pisa
• safed

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5487 Anno Mundi (26 September, 1726 – 15 September, 1727 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter in Hebrew dated 1726/27 CE (487 = בל תמוט), from the Jewish community of Safed to the Jewish community of Pisa, begging for financial aid on account of the heavy taxes imposed on them.

Tags

• pisa
• safed

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Primary language

Hebrew

Power of attorney (שטר הרשאה) in which the community of Safed appoints Yisrael Benveniste and Ḥayyīm Mordechai Būnan as their sheliḥim. […] There are numerous signatures (or at least names written out by the scribe), including that of Masʿūd Būnan, perhaps identical with the shaliaḥ sent from Tiberias to Pisa nearly twenty years earlier (Bodl. MS heb. c 64/6).

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Tags

• 18th c
• benveniste
• bonan
• late heb
• safed

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Primary language

Hebrew

Dating: Catalogued as 1726 CE.

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• non-geniza
• troki

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Document date

5496 Anno Mundi (17 September, 1735 – 5 September, 1736 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter in Hebrew dated 1735/36 CE (496 = קרן לעמו), from the Jewish community of Safed to the Jewish community of Pisa, begging for financial aid on account of a heavy tax of 10,000 גרושו׳ that has been imposed on them.

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• latin script
• pisa
• safed

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Tammuz 5619 Anno Mundi (3 July, 1859 – 31 July, 1859 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Form letter from the community of Safed to the communities of 'everywhere.' In Hebrew. […] There is also an addendum from the Ashkenazi congregation of Safed seconding the recommendation, with three signatures and a seal imprint: Siegel der Grosrabinat Israelitische Gemeinde Aschkenasim Safed.

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Document date

1713 CE

According to Schwarb catalogue: a registration of birth from Safed, 1713 and of death from 1720. AA

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• fgp stub

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Document date

5508 Anno Mundi (5 September, 1747 – 22 September, 1748 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter in Hebrew dated 1747/48 CE (508 = בשרו), from the Jewish community of Tiberias to the Jewish community of Pisa, begging for financial aid on account of debts owed of 10,000 arayot.

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• bonan
• pisa
• tiberias

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Document date

5552 Anno Mundi (29 September, 1791 – 16 September, 1792 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter in Hebrew dated 1791/92 CE (552 = וינטלם וינשאם) from the Jewish community of Jerusalem to the Jewish community of Pisa, begging for financial aid, naming a sum of 70,000 arayot.

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• pisa

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Inferred date

1766 – 1767 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter in Hebrew dated 1766/67 CE (527 = וה(י)כינו את (אשר) יביאו) from the Jewish community of Safed to the Jewish community of Pisa, begging for financial help to the tune of 15,000 gerushim. […] The "Italian congregation" of Safed (ק״ק איטאלייאנוס) is mentioned. Their sheliḥim are Yisrael Benveniste and Ḥayyim Mordechai Būnan (their power of attorney is the next shelfmark).

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• 18th c
• benveniste
• bonan
• illness
• illness: fright
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Document date

5542 Anno Mundi (20 September, 1781 – 8 September, 1782 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter in Hebrew dated 1781/82 CE (542 = מבשר) from the Jewish community of Jerusalem to the Jewish community of Pisa begging for financial aid. A sum of 8,000 arayot is named.

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• pisa

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5520 Anno Mundi (22 September, 1759 – 10 September, 1760 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter in Hebrew dated 1759/60 CE (520 = תהֿלה לכֿל), from the Jewish community of Tiberias to the Jewish community of Pisa, begging for financial help. They include interesting details about political struggles and unrest in the Galilee and a month-long siege of Tiberias.

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• pisa
• siege
• tiberias
• war

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter (or rather three letters) from Mustaʿrib sages, in Safed, to the Nagid Yiṣḥaq Sholal, in Fustat. Dating: 1510 CE, based on the assessment of Avraham David. These letters complain of the conduct of a certain R. Moshe, the dayyān of Safed in Galilee. If we are to believe the writers, he was a rather unusually vainglorious, selfish and unscrupulous person, guilty of many acts of tyranny, misappropriation and corruption, and responsible for the perennial Safed Meat Scandal."

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• 16th c
• afif b. ezra
• late heb
• safed
• sholal
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Document date

5449 Anno Mundi (25 September, 1688 – 14 September, 1689 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter in Hebrew dated 1688/89 CE (תגילו = 449), from the Jewish community of Izmir to the Jewish community of Pisa, following the economic distress in the aftermath of the 1688 Izmir earthquake. It seems that the community of Pisa had been accustomed to sending charity to communities of the Ottoman Empire (ארצות קוסטאנטינה) but this practice had lapsed.

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• earthquake
• izmir
• pisa

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5487 Anno Mundi (26 September, 1726 – 15 September, 1727 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter in Hebrew dated 1726/27 CE (487 = לך לאות), begging for charity from the Jewish community of Pisa.

Tags

• istanbul
• pisa

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Primary language

Hebrew

Opening of a letter to the yeshiva in Safed, from the beginning of the 16th century. The sender is informing on the demise of Shemuel Bahalul.

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• late heb

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Document date

5539 Anno Mundi (22 September, 1778 – 10 September, 1779 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter in Hebrew dated 1778/79 CE (539 = ותקוה טובה) from the Jewish community of Jerusalem to the Jewish community of Pisa begging for financial aid. The sum of 75,000 arayot is named.

Tags

• famine
• pisa

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Primary language

Hebrew

Form letter from the community of Safed, for the shaliaḥ Yaʿaqov b. Avraham to carry with him in his fundraising.

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Document date

Tammuz 5611 Anno Mundi (1 July, 1851 – 29 July, 1851 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Form letter from the community of Safed to the communities of 'everywhere.' In Hebrew.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Saʿīd Bardaʿ, possibly in Safed, to Daniel Cafsuto (דניאל קאפסוטו) and perhaps his son (? […] He seems to mention (line 6) a sum of money to be brought to the writer in Safed, and then a sum of 100 reals (line 8). He mentions several people including Natan b.

Tags

• barda
• real
• wax seal

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from an unidentified sender, in Safed, to Mordekhay Ibn ʿAjla, in Egypt. In Judaeo-Arabic.

Tags

• cyprus
• to examine

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Document date

14 Iyar 5586 Anno Mundi (21 May, 1826 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: List of the graves of ṣadiqim visited by Elʿazar ha-Levi of Egypt. Location: Safed. Dated: Pesaḥ Sheni = 14 Iyar 5586 AM, which is 1826 CE.

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[53]52 Anno Mundi (19 September, 1591 – 6 September, 1592 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Yaʿaqov Berav (d. 1599), a former pupil of Yosef Karo and a leading rabbi of Safed from 1593 until his death. A. David suggests that this copy of the document was sent to Safed, where he (and another Avraham b. [...] added their endorsements).

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Thursday, 12 Kislev 4784 Anno Mundi (28 November, 1023 CE)

Groom: Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen of Safed. Bride: Raḥel bt. [...] b. Avraham, a virgin.

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• ketubba
• marriage

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Document date

Elul 5611 Anno Mundi (29 August, 1851 – 26 September, 1851 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Form letter from the community of Safed to the community of Izmir concerning sheliḥim and fundraising.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to the arrival of a ship from Bīsh (מרכב ביש), i.e., Pisa, usually known as بيشة in medieval Arabic documents; see the letters edited in Michele Amari, I diplomi arabi (Florence, 1863), and see T-S 13J13.12 (PGPID 7990) for a reference to the "Bīshānīs," i.e., Pisans.

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• genoese
• pisa

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Document date

22 Elul 5685 Anno Mundi (11 September, 1925 CE)

Letter sent by the Adath Sefardim congregation of Safed to Avraham b.(?) David Naḥmias in Alexandria. […] Five communal leaders in Safed signed the letter: Shimʿon Darūsh(?), Raḥamīm ha-Kohen, Shelomo Adarʿī, Saʿadiya Luḥana(?)

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• 20th c
• late alexandria
• safed

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Ladino

The writer's uncle is in Safed. The writer's nephew Shemuel ha-Kohen sends his regards.

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• ladino

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Primary language

Hebrew

The sender says he traveled to Damietta intending to go on to Safed but could not find a ship, so he returned and arrived home on Friday night only to find his wife and two sons sitting in the dark on account of their poverty.

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• early modern

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Document date

13 Heshvan 5333 Anno Mundi (20 October, 1572 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Yiṣḥaq (Izak) b. Avraham, in Safed, to a certain Moshe, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew.

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• ashkenazim
• book trade
• late heb

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Primary language

Hebrew

Dating: Before 1502 CE and perhaps after 1498 CE (since Shalom b. Zaytūn lived in Safed before then). Issuing instructions concerning provisions for the orphans of R.

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• emet
• orphans
• sholal

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